... positive relationship with companies' profitability. Practical implications The VAIC™ method could be an important means for many decision makers to integrate IC in their decision‐making process, which allows insurance companies to benchmark themselves according to the IC efficiencies...

...Yasar Jarrar; Giovanni Schiuma; Fadi Salem Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of international benchmarking studies as drivers for e‐government development. Design/methodology/approach The paper shows that after reviewing 44 published e‐government...

...J. Bauer; S.J. Tanner; A. Neely Benchmarking is a powerful tool that, when applied properly, provides an organization with invaluable insights to support the achievement of their objectives. This paper describes how the results of a consortium benchmarking study on performance measurement were used...

... management Benchmarking Intellectual capital In the knowledge economy, the value of countries, regions, organizations and individuals is directly related to their knowledge and intellectual capital (IC). Can the new corporate view be translated into a new perspective on national performance? Can...

... on a benchmark study recently performed by the author at prominent, global companies, and during projects he performed, in the area of performance management, at various clients. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Performance management Performance measurement Benchmarking Alignment In order...

...Robin Holt; Andrew Graves Benchmarking is introduced as a practice of non‐financial assessment that promotes continual performance improvement. Its relevance to and possible consequences for the public sector are discussed in relation to a case study in construction procurement. A pilot study...

... been distributed on a CD‐ROM to the members of the Danish Association for Quality Management and the idea is, that companies should use the results as a benchmark when doing their own self‐assessment. In this article we concentrate on results at the aggregate level. We compare differences between...